From 840341d67d779107373c42d879ea14518751d7df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joel E. Denny" Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:59:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc: give credit to more of Bison's developers. * doc/bison.texinfo (Introduction): Don't imply that only Robert Corbett, Richard Stallman, and Wilfred Hansen have contributed to Bison. However, I don't have time to write a full history, so just point readers to THANKS and ChangeLog. --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ doc/bison.texinfo | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7daa48e0..d5f9d0f7 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2011-02-06 Joel E. Denny + + doc: give credit to more of Bison's developers. + * doc/bison.texinfo (Introduction): Don't imply that only Robert + Corbett, Richard Stallman, and Wilfred Hansen have contributed to + Bison. However, I don't have time to write a full history, so + just point readers to THANKS and ChangeLog. + 2011-02-06 Joel E. Denny doc: document experimental features better. diff --git a/doc/bison.texinfo b/doc/bison.texinfo index a323ce92..a8bc335e 100644 --- a/doc/bison.texinfo +++ b/doc/bison.texinfo @@ -371,9 +371,13 @@ last. If you don't know Bison or Yacc, start by reading these chapters. Reference chapters follow, which describe specific aspects of Bison in detail. -Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett; Richard Stallman made it -Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added -multi-character string literals and other features. +Bison was written originally by Robert Corbett. Richard Stallman made +it Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University +added multi-character string literals and other features. Since then, +Bison has grown more robust and evolved many other new features thanks +to the hard work of a long list of volunteers. For details, see the +@file{THANKS} and @file{ChangeLog} files included in the Bison +distribution. This edition corresponds to version @value{VERSION} of Bison. @@ -10875,5 +10879,5 @@ grammatically indivisible. The piece of text it represents is a token. @c LocalWords: superclasses boolean getErrorVerbose setErrorVerbose deftypecv @c LocalWords: getDebugStream setDebugStream getDebugLevel setDebugLevel url @c LocalWords: bisonVersion deftypecvx bisonSkeleton getStartPos getEndPos -@c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt +@c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt Corbett @c LocalWords: subdirectory Solaris nonassociativity -- 2.45.2